Lemma | lexeme |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
Sinonimi | |
Rinvii | morpheme (inglese) utterance (inglese) word (inglese) |
Traduzioni | |
Citazioni | A lexeme is always a grammatical form, by definition. Lexemes are on the average larger than single morphemes but smaller than whole utterances. Many words are lexemes in many occurrences, and many lexemes are words.
[...] But lexemes are in many cases smaller than what we usually call words [...]. Many words are lexemes in many occurrences, and many lexemes are words. A minor deviation is that intonations count as lexemes: when speaking of words, or of minimum free forms, intonations have to be taken into account separately. |